Author: Eduard Meine Van Zinderen BakkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glacial climates
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
A Late-glacial and Post-glacial Climatic Correlation Between East Africa and Europe
Author: Eduard Meine Van Zinderen BakkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glacial climates
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
Pluvials in Northern and Eastern Africa and Their Relations to Glacial Climates in Europe
Author: Michael John SelbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glacial climates
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Past Climate Variability through Europe and Africa
Author: Richard W. BattarbeePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402021216
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
This book focuses on two complementary time-scales, the Holocene (approximately the last 11,500 years) and the last glacial-interglacial cycle (approximately the last 130,000 years) to synthesize evidence of climate variability at the regional and continental scale across Europe and Africa. This is the first examination of historical climate variations at such a scale, and thus sets a benchmark for future research.
The Glaciers of Equatorial East Africa
Author: S. HastenrathPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400962517
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The SAGE Handbook of Environmental Change
Author: John A MatthewsPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446265927
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1059
Book Description
The SAGE Handbook of Environmental Change is an extensive survey of the interdisciplinary science of environmental change, including recent debates on climate change and the full range of other natural and anthropogenic changes affecting the Earth-ocean-atmosphere system in the past, present and future. It examines the historic importance, present status and future prospects of the field over two volumes. With more than 40 chapters, the books situate the defining characteristics and key paradigms within a state-of-the-art review of the field, including its changing nature and diversity of approaches, evidence base, key theoretical arguments, resonances with other disciplines and relationships between theory, research and practice. Opening with a detailed, contextualizing essay by the editors, the work is arranged into six parts: Part One: Approaches to Understanding Environmental Change Part Two: Evidence of Environmental Change and the Geo-ecological Response Part Three: Causes, Mechanisms and Dynamics of Environmental Change Part Four: Key Issues of Human-induced Environmental Changes and Their Impacts Part Five: Patterns, Processes and Impacts of Environmental Change at the Regional Scale Part Six: Responses of People to Environmental Change and Implications for Society Global in its coverage, scientific and theoretical in its approach, the books bring together an international set of respected editors and contributors to provide an exciting, timely addition to the literature on climate change. With the subjects′ interdisciplinary framework, this book will appeal to academics, researchers, postgraduates and practitioners in a variety of disciplines including, geography, geology, ecology, environmental science, archaeology, anthropology, politics and sociology.
Quaternary and Environmental Research on East African Mountains
Author: W.H. MahaneyPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000446840
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Twenty-six papers form a summary of research on glacial history, paleoclimatology, biogeography, ecosystem disequilibrium. Focus is on detailed chrono-stratigraphic, glacial geologic, and vertebrate paleontologic problems.
Global Climates since the Last Glacial Maximum
Author: H. E. WrightPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452903040
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Traces the evolution of the global climate since the last period of glacial maximum approximately 18,000 years ago. Examines how changes in climate have transformed Earth's biomes in this period and how this change has influenced the evolution of life.
Early Hominin Paleoecology
Author: Matt SponheimerPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607322250
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
An introduction to the multidisciplinary field of hominin paleoecology for advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students, Early Hominin Paleoecology offers an up-to-date review of the relevant literature, exploring new research and synthesizing old and new ideas. Recent advances in the field and the laboratory are not only improving our understanding of human evolution but are also transforming it. Given the increasing specialization of the individual fields of study in hominin paleontology, communicating research results and data is difficult, especially to a broad audience of graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and the interested public. Early Hominin Paleoecology provides a good working knowledge of the subject while also presenting a solid grounding in the sundry ways this knowledge has been constructed. The book is divided into three sections—climate and environment (with a particular focus on the latter), adaptation and behavior, and modern analogs and models—and features contributors from various fields of study, including archaeology, primatology, paleoclimatology, sedimentology, and geochemistry. Early Hominin Paleoecology is an accessible introduction into this fascinating and ever-evolving field and will be essential to any student interested in pursuing research in human paleoecology. Additional Contributors: David Braun Beth Christensen David J. Daegling Crag Feibel Fred E. Grine Clifford Jolly Naomi E. Levin Mark A. Maslin John Mitani Jay Quade Amy L. Rector Jeanne Sept Lillian M. Spencer Mark Teaford Carol V. Ward Katy E. Wilson
From Hunters to Farmers
Author: John Desmond ClarkPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520045743
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Ecology of the Alpine Zone of Mount Kenya
Author: M.J. CoePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401178313
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
For centuries the peak of Mount Kenya has held a magical and religious significance for the Bantu and Nilohamitic peoples around its base. The Kikuyu live around the Eastern and Southern bound aries and the closely related Uembu and Umeru on the S.E. and N.E. respectively. Early in this century the Masai lived to the N.W. and North, but after continual warfare between them and their neighbours, the European administrators of that time moved them to a special reserve to the South, which accounts at the present day for the retention in the Masai language of many words that refer to Mount Kenya. Kikuyu folk-lore tells how, when the earth was formed, a man named Mogai made a great mountain, Kere-Nyaga. The fine white powder (snow) covering the peak, which they called ira, was said to be the bed of Ngai (God), and during male and female circumcision ceremonies a white powder was placed on the wound, and the ini tiates were told that this material had been brought from the summit of the mountain. In fact all important tribal ceremonies were, and in many cases still are conducted facing the mountain. Such occasions include marriage and sacrifice when, in time of hardship, Ngai's aid is called upon (CAGNOLO 1933, KENYATTA 1938, CRIRA 1959).